1960s Supporting the Nation’s Science Education Endeavor

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1960

Domestic and international events resulted in the amount of Scientific and Technical Information announced doubling each five years

1961

Termination of the Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion program resulted in wide-scale declassification and subsequent announcement of reports

1961

Technical Information Division (TID) begins collaboration with the domestic depository library program

1962

TID becomes Division of Technical Information Extension (DTIE)

1962

U.S. and foreign country Atoms-for-Peace libraries maintained by DTIE through shipments of most recently received and announced reports, in hardcopy or microcard

1962

First booklets of the series “Understanding the Atom” published, written to simplify and improve the answering of inquiries of nuclear topics

1962

American Institute of Physics collaborated with DTIE to enhance coverage of physics material in Nuclear Science Abstracts

1962

DTIE supported the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Domestic Exhibits Program and served as principal service point for supplying information and educational materials on uses of the atom both for its energy potential and its promise in medicine

1963

The AEC’s domestic program expanded to a number of host countries and DTIE supported foreign exhibits program through selection of scientific materials, shipping, and staffing

1963

Production of microfiche commenced, replacing routine production of microcards for distribution

1963

DTIE pioneered development of new techniques to automate mailing of educational literature packets

1963

Weinberg Report issued by the White House, documenting the value of technical information as an integral part of science and finding that the transfer of information is an inseparable part of research and development

1964

DTIE provided support and scientific materials for the Third Geneva Conference and the New York World’s Fair

1967

Computer processing of information began, electronic information stored to enable rapid searching of bibliographic information

1968

DTIE continued to maintain broad acquisitions program for NSA with a total of 316 foreign exchange agreements in 44 countries

1969

International Nuclear Information System created under the International Atomic Energy Agency

1969

Work began on new instructional series for elementary school science, “The World of the Atom”